Trump Puts Companies On Notice: Outsource At Your Own Peril

President-elect Donald Trump put companies on notice during his first press conference in months Wednesday, asserting companies that plan to build in Mexico should expect a big border tax.

“The word is now out,” Trump said in response to a question about his propensity to call major corporations to discuss potential outsourcing, “that when you want to move your plant to Mexico or some other place … you’re going to pay a big border tax.”

“Not gonna happen that way anymore,” he promised.

Trump cited Carrier and Ford as examples of where his intervention made a difference.

“You can move from Michigan to Tennessee and to North Carolina to South Carolina,” Trump explained. “You got a lot of places you can move, and I don’t care, as long as its within the borders of the United States.”

“There will be a major border tax on these companies that are leaving, and getting away with murder,” Trump continued.

He asserted that if “our politicians had what it takes, this would have been done years ago,” before moving on to the next question.

Trump held his first press conference since his election to the presidency Wednesday morning, where he fielded a wide range of questions ranging from Obamacare to the unverified report regarding his ties to Russia.

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